rubi_con_man:If that person felt threatened, then in Florida they have the right to shoot you to death.

Did you read the "article" it is devoid of information. And yeah, if you threaten people you deserve to be shot. this sounds like a street gang initiation, not a "cracker kills attractive what the fark ever, JUSTICE FOR TREVON!" STFU.

Although people do get shot like this here in beautiful Oakland, CA, this is also a cover story the police sometimes use because apparently it would be even more scary to admit that someone was assassinated Downtown in broad daylight. So I'm always a little skeptical when I hear stories about someone being shot for no reason.

rich_mitch:Although people do get shot like this here in beautiful Oakland, CA, this is also a cover story the police sometimes use because apparently it would be even more scary to admit that someone was assassinated Downtown in broad daylight. So I'm always a little skeptical when I hear stories about someone being shot for no reason.

I would tend to think the opposite: The average person would be less frightened by a 'hit' (I assume not an assassination, as why would there be a political motivation for killing these nobodies). Nobody believes they have any reason to be killed, so random violence poses more of a threat to the average person than targeted violence.

Prophet of Loss:Its not the guns that are the problem; its the idiots holding them. For every "responsible" gun owner, there are a dozen that use easy access to the weapons to act anti-socially.

Actually, the data suggests that a large, large majority of guns are used legally and responsibly.

300 million guns100 million gun owners (est)

If even 1 percent of guns and gun owners were criminal you'd have 1,000,000 gun criminals and 3,000,000 crime guns per year. I don't recall the true numbers, but it's something like 100,000 gun crimes per year, even assuming a worst-case situation.